Berlin-Hamburg-Muncih based Saroos read a lot of sci-fi, so it should come as little surprise that the music they make sounds downright otherworldly. Florian Zimmer (Driftmachine), Christoph Brandner (Lali Puna) and Max Punktezahl (the Notwist) are as much scientists as they are composers and instrumentalists — they’re obsessed with sound as particles in motion, and devoted to creating stylistic collisions that pop as much as they probe.

But what does Saroos sound like? Exotica gone even wilder — abstract and shadowy. Or dub in reverse, where solid grooves emerge from skronk and noise. Like beats coated in dust, pushed through space by an astral zephyr. Or a huge wall of sound, frayed at both ends, whose core is a woven mass of impenetrable sonic particulate. And still, the effect isn’t one of claustrophobia. The Saroos sound is, as is its makers’ wont, something to be explored, something to get lost in.